If you have 2 page urls and each has the same link somewhere on the page. If you add a no-follow on one links of the two pages, will google still index the link from the other page? So I guess my question is the no-follow specific to one location or does Google put any url in a "no-follow" box? Is it okay to craft links in this way? Page A - "Link to Page C" (no-follow) Page B - "Link to Page C" Page C
You can do whatever you want... But in the case of: Google will NOT follow the link from Page A to Page C. They will NOT discover Page C because of the link on Page A. The link from Page A to Page C will NOT be counted as an inbound link in their PageRank and ranking algorithms... In other words, nofollow links will NOT help the target of that link rank in any way at Google. BUT they can still discover and index Page C because of the followed link from Page B to Page C. That link from Page B to Page C CAN be counted as a valid backlink to Page C and CAN help Page C rank by passing PR to Page C and having the relevance of Page B and the link text used on Page B to link to Page C counted by the ranking algorithm. I'm not sure of the point of your questions, but there are better ways to prevent Google indexing a URL if that is what you're trying to do. Nofollow is a very ineffective method of stopping the search engines from indexing a URL. Another site can always link to the URL with a followed link and get it indexed. Treatment may vary at other search engines.
Hi, Great explanation, But I must say in simple words that all the links given on No Follow pages don't crawled by Google.